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The Constitution is clear that it does not specify who counts the votes, and thus leaves it to whatever entity has residual power in the area (here, the Senate and the House of Representatives) to resolve how the votes are counted.

Of the coup. quote in my mind it was here in the bulls eye center of the action that trump operated likely along with chief of staff, rudy giuliani, house minority leader, michael flynn. representative jordan and the most extreme elements of the gop house and senate conferences. the strategy for trump to stay in power. if in when pence did that, by vaguely citing allegations of fraud in those states and quote returning their votes to the state legislature, pence would succeed in lowering bidens ...

Specific states. if in when pence did that, by vaguely citing allegations of fraud in those states and quote returning their votes to the state legislature, pence would succeed in lowering bidens electoral vote total to below 270. which would immediately trigger under the 12th amendment a contingent election. the house contingent election the one place where trump could still, quote, win the election. again, those are the three rings of sort of the attack that jaskin i think presciently describe...

That they seem to know were unfortified in particular areas. they were the ones who led the attack on our officers and started hitting them over the head with steel pipes and confederate battle flags and so on. then there was the inside action, donald trump trying to figure out a way to intimidate mike pence and this is what we call the realm of the coup. it is a weird word in american political parlance, we dont have a lot of experience with coups and we think of a coup as something taking plac...

Coincidences in politics, and for as chaotic as the trump era was, there actually was something in writing abo just this, the eastman memo says, quote, at the end, pence announces that because of the ongoing disputes in seven states, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those states. that means the total number of electors appointed, the language of the 12th amendment is 454, a majority of the electors appointed would therefore be 228. at this point, 232 votes for trump,...

Those bans of people refuse to actually proclaim themselves the official electors and wanted to describe themselves as electors in waiting or something like that. but in the other cases, they did present themselves as the official electors. and that, of course, raises pro found problems about fraud on the constitution and a fraud on the american people. we believe that this was an effort to inject more confusion that would become a pre text for rejecting, rebuffing electoral college votes, retur...

Forward by the governors of the states including republican governors from a number of the states they were trying to reject. they thought if pence would do that it could lower joe bidens total in the electoral college from 306 to what he had to below 270. at that point under the 12th amendment the contest is thrown immediately into a contingent election into the house of representatives. why would trump want to get this thrown into speaker pelosis house where theres a democratic majority, they ...

Ballot boxes tarp seized. obviously, they were throwing a lot of spaghetti on the wall as i talk about it in my book. although i read today one of the republicans used to a somewhat more vivid and vulgar decision of what they were throwing against the wall. they were trying to do anything to derail the peaceful transition of power. this was one plan apparently that was not executed. well be interested next checking it out, nonetheless for purposes of telling the american people what we need to w...

Once, more we know that donald trumps coup attempt on january 6th specifically involved these phonies slates of electors. it is their plain as day for old to read and behind the coup memo that trumps lawyer john eastman cooked up. here is eastmans guidance for then vice president pence on january 6th. quote, when he, meaning pence, gets to arizona, he is reading through the states, he announced he has multiple states of electors and is going to defer a decision on that until finishing the other ...

From one of his e-mails. this i think has been from what i understand a months long pursuit from the committee here. what do you hope to get out of him? >> yeah. we dont want any of, you know, our evidence collection efforts to be reduced to a game of cat and mouse. its not hide and go seek. when the congress comes calling you turn over the information you have. eastman was the legal architect or one of the legal architects of the strategy of falsely thwarting joe bidens 306 majority in the elec...